Resource Saving Support (Gem Zen)

[rare swan]

a Zerena rerun would make sense to get more of that Serena Money

[modern bobcat]

Happy to have enough gems for pity!
I'm planning to continue to save my gems this month too

[lofty relic]

Gratz!!

i'm skipping these NY pairs for a very stubborn reason

but i'm getting really annoyed at the low effort done on them mainly sync moves which is absurd after so long they can't come up with something

found out NY Dawn has no particle effects on her extra dmg passive it looks disgusting in play like a playtest bug

genuinely can't bring myself to support these kind of choices

Seasonals need to become more on par with Fair quality imo

Gif is buggy i'll put it in screenshot
When her extra damage passive procs, there's no visual or sound cue it's just a quick damage number, it's so jarring.

[gloomy holly]

I only need 2 more days to hit pity

[cunning swan]

Here I thought dreamy was flexing their Latios solo attempt

[cunning swan]

The absurd thing is, they used to have non-generic sync moves

[lofty relic]

lmao nah but it was the best i found to showcase it

yeah like Summer Steven iirc

[cunning swan]

I only have 1 seasonal pair and I'm glad said pair has a non-generic sync

[sturdy flower]

gl! building the foundation of the gem wall is always the hardest!

[timber wren]

it was holiday 2019, summer 2020, fall 2020, and holiday 2020 that had unique sync animations

so they put a stop to it quick

[cunning swan]

Boooo

Bring back unique syncs for seasonals

[lofty relic]

yeah it's absurd

my only reasoning is that somehow they got the analytics that most people just skip those animations altogether

but still it's kinda lame

[timber wren]

i think it’s more absurd that dynamax units don’t get unique syncs

when the dmax animations are straight from swsh

two anniversary units just don’t have unique animations (raihan and red)

[lofty relic]

and they refused to give Raihan a gmax

[gloomy holly]

Also Nessa

No G-Max Drednaw

[lofty relic]

yes and Bea too but Raihan actually got a rerun and upgrade

which was the sole possible time to give him

now hinting that they likely won't

[cunning swan]

When do you guys think they'll give powerboost in the form of gmax to old units

[gloomy holly]

Why Bea has no G-Max Machamp?

[lofty relic]

when Brendan gets Mega

[timber wren]

if it doesn’t happen for galar va then it’s not happening

[cunning swan]

[lofty relic]

yea that's the last bastion

[gloomy holly]

Coping that Opal gets G-Max Alcremie

[timber wren]

i want opal with galarian weezing

[sturdy flower]

DeNa kinda lazy for the money they make, cant lie

then again, we don't know the contract between them and TPCi

[vernal glade]

If Zeraora does come, I want it as a tech or striker.

[gloomy holly]

Plasma Fist with Static Shock

[vernal glade]

My gems waiting on that mythical.

[sturdy flower]

I want it as Selene's pokemon

[violet nebula]

Electric is stacked

They won't demote Red so soon

[sturdy flower]

no need to demote, could be a sidegrade

or 3rd damage dealer with rebuff to add to the team, both pikachus can tank

but "all Normal-type moves will become Electric-type" doesn't sound too enticing unless we get more Hughs

[ashen thunder]

Tbf electric need more top tier gen pool options

I can't remember a better electric dps than elesa(who suffers from wild charge recoil)

Saying electric OP just coz rats exist is kinda

Even dragon is objectively stronger typing

[gloomy holly]

Volkner?

[ashen thunder]

He is a setter

His damage is pathetic

[gloomy holly]

He can flinch

[sturdy flower]

i'd mention Hau but he's not gen pool

[gloomy holly]

He's free

Just saying

Or was he?

[sturdy flower]

that's still not gen pool!

[ashen thunder]

I mean hau isn't even half as good as other type dps in gen pool

I'd like a electric dps with less caveats than elesa

To be more accessible

[sturdy flower]

it's because we didnt have any electric gen pool units

in a long time

maybe someone like Elesa gets the grid expansion though

[ashen thunder]

Recoil removal

[sturdy flower]

just get rid of recoil in electric terrain or something and she's fine for CSMM

for the grand total of 3 energy

[ashen thunder]

Well she's fine for CSMM even with the recoil

It just get annoying in longer fights

CS standards for a dps is stupid low anyways

[sturdy flower]

ah right, we all forgot about him

the Golem!

not gen pool but great

[ashen thunder]

Another pepega recoil

[sturdy flower]

he takes that recoil well

even in LA

[ashen thunder]

Still pepega gimmick

[sturdy flower]

electric doesn't have other strong moves

you want them to use the boring hyper beam?

[ashen thunder]

Electric totally does

[sturdy flower]

like what

[ashen thunder]

HTG5 exists for a reason

[sturdy flower]

HTG5... Wild Charge

it deserves it's own 4bar move without the HTG passive taking up a slot

Nemona will be another weird electric striker/tech, because Pawmot's signature Double Spark makes it lose stab afterwards

but we dont have stab in PM

[ashen thunder]

Well they managed to code for frogs

So they'll likely come up with smth

[sturdy flower]

right, Double Shock not spark

"requires electric terrain, consumes it on use"

💀

i guess they could use the rebuff mechanic

give Pawmot the defensive rebuff and every use of the move requires one stack of it

or make sync change to normal type after using the move once

[ashen thunder]

Parmot loses weakness upon using double shock

Red replacement in a ground focus ebe if they slap terrain on top

[sturdy flower]

but if you terrastalize him into electric he can spam that move every turn (just it isn't x2 stab, just x1.5)

[ashen thunder]

Well we don't know how terrastalize will be implemented

[sturdy flower]

im almost certain i will use the rebuff system, but we will see

[hard wave]

I pulled for her in december and I want both

[violet nebula]

Seems a bit silly as Zerena is way more superior

[hard wave]

I like both lillie and serena’s designs, both lunala and zygarde, and also could use more kalos and alola pairs

Im just hoping I can save enough gems and zerena stays long enough if she comes

[sturdy flower]

she should stay at least a month

if she comes

might stay till half anni is over even, because they would definitely advertise using her

[hard wave]

If she does stay over 2 months in high gem months that’d be nice

Tho there r going to be other things I want the gauntlet banner would be rlly nice to pull on but ig ill skip it and diantha would also be nice

[sturdy flower]

in the end, everything is nice

but gotta find the nicest

[hard wave]

Tru

But the thing is we r in a VA rn and if I miss them who knows when they’ll rerun?

[hard wave]

These r the pairs I want to get (cynthia/n would be nice as well for lodge)

Gauntlet banner still looks pretty tempting tho cuz I could get copies for my diantha and wouldnt have to candy her and iris/gloria have lodge potential

[mild spindle]

#1006618823123800106 message

Am I missing any other free summons that were given out?

[tough oriole]

Late, but ||Emmet||

[wind nymph]

Ah

Verrrrrry good!

[hard wave]

Hopefully they rerun more often, id like him and || ingo ||

[remote quest]

Had to come to gen zen because I blew 3 multis on calems banner because "dark zone sounds pretty useful for csmm" despite me trying to save for diantha Alola+galar va😭 I'm having the urge to pull the last two multis and get the rewards over with and the itch the pull is getting worse, I think I have sunk cost fallacy rn

Rn I have 80k gems which technically is fine since that's two pities, but Alola and Galar va is soon and worst case scenario Diantha will take a whole pity

[vestal leaf]

Damn, 9k on a banner that ends in less than a week is

Rough

[remote quest]

Yea

[vestal leaf]

Especially because you fell for 1% fomo

[remote quest]

[vestal leaf]

Which made the stunt even less likely to work

Hopefully you can recover

Because feb-march are always filled months

[remote quest]

Ugh I totally forgot about 3.5 anni again

Im sure recovery will be fine..depends on the gem income for the next few months

I regret my pulls

[vestal leaf]

Use this regret and frustration to fend off temptation in next months

[remote quest]

I'll try

I should've come here first but

Lesson learned

At least it wasn't a whole lot like 20k

[vestal leaf]

You can cope a bit with the presents at least ig

[remote quest]

I don't think we're getting more

[vestal leaf]

I meant

From the banner

[remote quest]

Oh

[vestal leaf]

Since master fair

[remote quest]

Yeah I guess

[vestal leaf]

Did you get nothing at all?

[remote quest]

Got my last coin for tech candy

I got 5 star dupes

[vestal leaf]

Yeesh

[remote quest]

Ye

[vestal leaf]

Yeah that's definitely a lesson

In karma

Could've been better

Could've been worse

9k is still 1/4 of a pity

[silk mirage]

Guys im getting tempted to pull cynthia for getting bored to wait

I have 46k gems

I dont Need anything im Just getting bored to wait a unit that i wanna pull

I was thinking cynthia Garchomp but idk i like cynthia but everyone Say not worth

I dont Need any units. I can pull for faves

But idk maybe Is Just Better skip?

[sturdy flower]

then dont pull

[sand crown]

Don’t. Because even if you do, she requires significant investment

[silk mirage]

Yeah....Better not and Just i should distrract myself from game and pulls

[hard wave]

Imo if u dont need her for ground coverage her only worth is lodge cuz she sucks below 3/5

[silk mirage]

Maybe next month will be released some units that i wanna pull and i wont have gems that would be so sad

Nah i can pull for fun,i wouldnt use her anyway

She seems weak

If isnt High like 4/5

I have already zugarde 3/5 ex,groudon,nidoking im fine

This month pulled ampharos calem serena just

I have to save gems

[hard wave]

Ye u rlly dont need her, if ur going to pull on the lodge banner atleast do it on someone u like/need

I want her as well but purely for lodge bcz I have 3/5 gioking

Id rather pull another unit that I like than one just for lodge

[uneven pewter]

The unfortunate reality of this is you’re still risking going for her when there’s other fair exclusives that can spook you as well

Thus forcing you to pity

Unfortunately og cynthia hasn’t been on a selector banner either

So it’s not exactly as if you can simply wait for that

Since there’s no precedent

I personally love the 5/5 grid nodes she’s gotten

Arguably a night and day transition for the pair

But as others have said pull within your means

Cynthia will come back way more often than some of these newer fairs

And make no mistake that she needs candies/dupes to truly shine

So dont chase her without accepting the reality she’ll want a lot before showing results

[tardy fiber]

I wonder ||if i make a good decision, like duraludon is not a fave but i like gigalith from my main game playthrough and as i did not have any faves for select scout B, i think this is a great chance for me to get Raihan through select scout than from a normal banner that might costs me a lot more. Well at least i can get some freebies from lodge milestones as well otw||

[sturdy flower]

||if you want to spend money go for it, i just skip selects that dont interest me||

[lean mango]

Gem count, 70k next reset

[sturdy flower]

||in general i feel like paid gems are outside of the gem zen scope, because they are limited by your financial status and willingness to spend and their worth differs from player to player||

[sand crown]

5,000 gems per select isn’t cheap

[slow hare]

To Rybeks point, if ur a millionaire then its cheap

[sturdy flower]

but for someone from middle class in a wealthy country it might not be much, especially if it's $5 and bread costs $2 or something

[tardy fiber]

Oh ||this is true, the value does become a bit cheaper for me after the 20 days bundle being introduced ||

[slow hare]

And I really do struggle with the question of "worth" for digital playthings

[sand crown]

Digital playthings that will one day disappear

[slow hare]

Sighhhh

[sturdy flower]

physical goods sadly are often built to not last too

[tardy fiber]

Well if i can get something for 3k / 5k than a usual pity of 36.6k, it will feel worth

[slow hare]

Just like real life relationships amirite 😭

[sturdy flower]

and it's not feasible to get replacement parts for them way too often

[sand crown]

I don’t mind the occasional select to support the game, but I don’t make it a habit

[sand crown]

Even our own lives are finite

[slow hare]

I suppose that's true, nobody keeps the same phone forever... even if it works perfectly fine people will upgrade their phone anyways

not me tho I'm cheap and phones are expensive

[sand crown]

Guilty as charged

[tardy fiber]

||but i guess i will limit myself to select for new lodge guest if: there's no faves that need to 3/5 in it and the lodge guest already exist, like i not gonna select Ingo because there's still no Ingo guest||

[sturdy flower]

try to gauge your enjoyment and rate the experience in money, if I want to judge single player games for example I usually call the game a good purchase if I spent about 5 hours of enjoyment per 1$

[sand crown]

||Which is why I support the occasional select. Poma has given me more enjoyment than many triple A games||

[slow hare]

||like being in a relationship with someone in a town where you are for school knowing that you'll move away from the place and you won't be able to continue the relationship so you'll inevitably suffer a great deal of heartbreak but you pursue the relationship anyways.......

Totally don't have experience with this scenario............ nope.....||

[slow hare]

Agree

[tardy fiber]

Although some might say i'm wrong but i treat poma as continuation for mainline pokemon game's journey

And i love it

[slow hare]

||selects once in a while, never dailies, this is the way 👌||

[sturdy flower]

but just doing dailies in a mobile game is something I treat like I did mmos - it's kinda just repetitive everyday thing that I have no strong feelings about and usually do on a side while taking care of something else

[sand crown]

They also keep killing off my faves (thank you Rockstar and Konami) so Dena is a beneficiary of this

[slow hare]

Lolll nice

[tardy fiber]

Yu-Gi-Oh never dies

But where's some archetypes supports

[rare swan]

You will be fine! The next few months will have a ton of gems

[tardy fiber]

Hope April/May isn't dry of gems... Alola VA probably gonna be during those months right?

[crisp oracle]

Probably.

[ashen thunder]

Just don't roll anything before april

I know tapu MFs coming on alola VA

To drain my funds

[crisp oracle]

SS Lusa rerun, possibly

Lusa Redemption arc go brrrr

[ashen thunder]

MF rerun is the obvious one

Archie was rerun already

Also

Lusa is already redeemed in pomas

[vernal glade]

And I’m still nervous about their EBs including ones that’s coming to the VA.

[tardy fiber]

Kinda want to see if zerena will rerun next month

[ashen thunder]

Ebes are ez
Just lucksacc from gen pool

[vernal glade]

No I mean Alola.

THE Alola EB once we get to their VA.

[tardy fiber]

Gonna prepare for alola that cover tapu types for ebe
Koko replacement = Hau
Bulu replacement= Marlon
Alola psychic and alola water
Wait the last tapu is water right?

Oops not marlon

But the tsareena girl

[vernal glade]

Im not an Alola fan nor expert so I don’t know.

[ashen thunder]

Tbh I only care abt wise and sentry entry rather than type advantage itself for ebe

Coz unless they throw in tough skin 9 it's gonna be doable offtype anyways

So we already have hau for special
But for physical I hope they allow solgaleo

[vernal glade]

Yes. Hopefully otherwise, I don’t know what to choose.

[tardy fiber]

Physical? buzzma my man

Gladion my man

[ashen thunder]

Well I do have MR and mallow for physical

But budget players might not have access

[sturdy flower]

Koko replacement = MR
Bulu replacement = MR
Fini replacement = MR
Lele replacement = MR
follow me for more EB advice

[ashen thunder]

[vernal glade]

As for potions, SC Lillie and Kiawe.

[tardy fiber]

Bp soph can be tapu koko replacement..well hau is special elec and he is physical elec

[ashen thunder]

Oh yea bp soph is budget physical

[tardy fiber]

Hope i can 5* him soon

[lean mango]

Kinda forgot Alola even has potion users

[ashen thunder]

I wonder what tank would people use for alola if they don't have kiawe, Lana, elio or aura Cyn

[lean mango]

The fact you had to include Aura Cyn

[ashen thunder]

I mean

She's better than the 3 I mentioned before her

[lean mango]

Lana hype

[ashen thunder]

Kiawe grid expansion

Maybe story pairs get grid expansion soon

Then hau gets static boost 9 and sharp entry 3

[lean mango]

Nanu grid expansion

[tardy fiber]

Claire when?

Oh right probably acerola will get later

[vernal glade]

But the strikers, I don’t know what’ll I choose, there could be more than 1 EB event for Alola means more gems but insanity in return.

[tardy fiber]

Maximum will be only 2..for VA part 1 and part 2...3 EBE is only for half anniv and anniv

Oh talking about half anniv, gonna grid my boy Blaine, he carried me for anniraihan EBE

[sturdy flower]

didnt we have 3 EBE for some

[ashen thunder]

We had 3 for last year half anni I think

And they were purely type based

Coz I raised drake to 5* just to deal with it back then

[tardy fiber]

Yep half anni because they release 3 pairs... just like anniv 2021 3 pairs

Oh wait unova VA got 3 EBE because 3 pairs...2 on first part and 1 on part 2

[sturdy flower]

Hoenn had 3 too

didn't it?

one easy for Zinnia, another that required physical and the Look bullpoop one that spammed -acc for SSteven

didn't Johto have 3, one for every MF?

and before that I didn't play so I can't say

[tardy fiber]

Its for ssbrendan, ssmay and then sssteven

[vernal glade]

If there’s another Alola in the Anniversary, I’m gonna except another painful eb.

[tardy fiber]

They never made EBE intended for power boost LA unit, just because some of it is way strong like Giovanni

Like they made EBE for ssmisty+sserika so weak to grass and physical but... Giovanni have psystrike

Im happy that i have big fave list, well because some of my faves overlap with some of the EBE requirements...so another alola EBE probably not gonna be tough, well if they are legendaries, i probably will get them anyway

Like ssacynthia EBE, i cleared it without pulling her with scdiantha/scguzma/cobalion

[sturdy flower]

i cleared it with EX aaron, 2/5 Bea and i think Marley

required a few retries to perfect the strat but worked out in the end

and EX Aaron is useful

[weary spire]

Surely, there hasn’t been a trend of powerful pairs constantly outclassing each other offensively in a gacha game, especially not this one

Suurely

[lean mango]

Next month

[rotund sleet]

i’d agree with you if EOS was in a month

[gloomy holly]

Definitely

[tardy fiber]

Give me paldea first before EOS

[sturdy flower]

hard to make sidegrades for this game, if you make rebuff units meant to be zone alternatives people will still pair them with zone users

[tardy fiber]

I like rebuff, they are my hopium for type buff...like i skip scingo due to not a fave but sshilbert exist with bug rebuff to make my fave run easier

[sturdy flower]

rebuff/zone is pretty much a premium offtype tool, that's my consensus anyways

otherwise EX and/or a bit more planning does the job too

especially tech EX, they pull off crazy numbers offtype, wish more 3* and 4* techs had EX

[tardy fiber]

It help my Sshilbert+lusamine bruteforce wisex2 bug weak run...as i not gonna pull sc subway bros

Oops wisex2

[sturdy flower]

my EX MR could offtype virtually anything ||and now I added CCalem to his usual team to look at even more silly bigger numbers for no reason at all other than big number funny||

[weary spire]

That’s more on the culture of overkill due to an overall easier game where there’s less focus on what actually clears the content, and more on what is strongest regardless
At least, for those who are already comfortable with clearing the content already (most)

But I get you

[tardy fiber]

But i cry, sswally took both fairy rebuff and zone...how can i hopium that my fave will get one

[weary spire]

I guess that there are already dupe zones

[tardy fiber]

Gonna hope that magearna or enamorus have duplicate

Yep gonna hope it will go to non master fairs

Oh wait, magearna kinda MF material

[sturdy flower]

hope we get a collab with the new anime too (and this time the character is free)

[tardy fiber]

Alain please

[cunning swan]

Alain

[sturdy flower]

i'd say yes to Alain if it wasn't another Charizard

let that dinosaur perish

[tardy fiber]

Give him mega Tyranitar

[cunning swan]

It will be another charizard, let's be real

[lean mango]

no

[rotund sleet]

why alain lmao

just another zard

he is probably the most notable anime exclusive character that hasn't been added

i can’t think of anybody else

[tardy fiber]

Jessie James

[lean mango]

Rerun

[tardy fiber]

Officer Jenny and Nurse Joy

[drowsy saddle]

Which one?

[tardy fiber]

Just make an exclusive one for Pasio's branch

[lean mango]

Trinnia unit

[rotund sleet]

ah mb, i meant that hasn't been added

i'd take jessie/james rerun over alain in any form

any day

[cunning swan]

THE EMOJI NAME NOOOOO

[cunning swan]

see, this is why I want alain

just a cool character

despite having charizard

[tardy fiber]

Also a kalos league champion

[lean mango]

[signal halo]

The daily tickets threw a wrench at two things simultaneously

[lunar topaz]

Idt I grabbed the free 20 gems yesterday

[signal halo]

Calem and champion iris priority

I really was afraid I wouldn't have the means to beat dark weak sentry entry in the future without zone until I had 3/5 karen

I also thought I'd need champion iris for the aoe devastation setup, so I can justify investing in old man alder

Guess who came from the ticket

And this whole thing made it harder for me to choose if the champion iris banner was the best way to get colress

[cunning swan]

my dream is to have all masters 8 in poma

...meanwhile, I have only one of them in my roster (if we don't count alts)

[signal halo]

From masters 8

I think I have only ash and cynthia

I don't have lance, diantha, Steven, Leon, champion iris and Alain doesn't exist

[ashen thunder]

You mean

Iris alt.

[cunning swan]

the disrespect to Iris

[sly breach]

Damn i thought that the battle that gave 1k gems would still be around till the 9th, would have reached 1 pity today

[maiden kayak]

yay

10k more

to half a mil

[cunning swan]

[honest fulcrum]

That’s crazyyyyyyy

Congratulations

[violet nebula]

Ehh

[maiden kayak]

wtf

dont post here smh

please delete it

thanks

[violet nebula]

Early morning, sorry😅

[maiden kayak]

alto i get it lol

[violet nebula]

It is a bit cheeky that

Back to zenning😤

[honest fulcrum]

Oh goodness temptations are real

Saving is going to be of utmost importance though with feb and march coming

[maiden kayak]

just hold on to those gems tightly

at least after 3.5 anni

then it will be easier journey ahead

[violet nebula]

True true

[cunning swan]

the first three months will be challenging

I'm worried what 3.5 anni will bring

[feral vale]

I’m just hoping for every one of them to be a skip for me

[gloomy holly]

Welp, tomorrow I'll be able to reach a single pity

[little briar]

Back to needing 10k for my second pity, but ||I managed to get NY Volkner so I'm very happy.|| too bad the 1k gems didn't continue haha. I think everything else is p much a skip for me until March or half anniversary

[lean mango]

70k lfg

[signal halo]

I was looking at NY 2021 and being like

Damn those units feel old, how could the game have progressed so much in 1 year???

Then I look at the calendar and it's 2023

[tardy fiber]

90910 gems with 500 still locked in the mission...hope can reach 100k before kalos VA

[signal halo]

Have they ever broken a VA down between two months?

Was wondering why sycamore won't get any boosts

[tardy fiber]

Yep they did before

[lean mango]

Yea

[signal halo]

So hope isn't all lost?

[lean mango]

Johto was split into 2 months iirc

[signal halo]

I'm glad to have picked the rerun

[tardy fiber]

Sinnoh as well

[lean mango]

Hope was never lost tho, all the Legend units get 2 boosts

[signal halo]

Would be a pretty sad month without silver's power boost

[tardy fiber]

Ssrcynthia and lucas on part 1

[lean mango]

I mostly remember Johto because of the bomb that dropped of 3 MF units

[tardy fiber]

Right, kalos might also get 3 units

As part 1 only have 1 unit

Same like johto

[lean mango]

Wonder who'll be those 3 units then

[copper zodiac]

[lean mango]

I hope one of them will be Lysandre

[tardy fiber]

SsSycamore, sscalem, SsLysandre or kick calem for AZ

[lean mango]

SS AZ

[tardy fiber]

Well they introduce Lucas before on sinnoh VA, time to introduce AZ

[lean mango]

Makes me wonder what Pokemon he'll get

I kinda doubt he'll get Eternal Floette

[tardy fiber]

Shiny ground zygarde

[violet nebula]

Haha too many males

Serena will get another for sure

[lean mango]

Counterpoint: Lysandre

[tardy fiber]

Another rerun probably

Ssserena rerun

[violet nebula]

Lysandre does need a alt, sure Sycamore recently got a lodge pair🤔

[tardy fiber]

Because they usually release sygna suits during VA, and serena already have one...like ssmay and ssdawn etc

[signal halo]

I'm hoping for SS lysandre and shiny mega Gyarados

Gyarados is one of my og fave pokemon

Which even makes me consider lance during moments of weakness

[violet nebula]

Gyrados is such a awesome pokemon in general

[signal halo]

Yeah

[tardy fiber]

Same i like gyarados as well but thanks to DeNa ||giving me 2 shiny magikarps, that curb my urge a lot ||

[signal halo]

Also, it would be pretty poetic

[tardy fiber]

I might make gyarados eggmon as my first 5* 20/20 eggmon but man...the number of 4* pairs keep on increasing...40+ 4* pairs that need to upgrade to 5*

[signal halo]

Serena being a water type champion
Calem being a dark type champion
Lysandre being a water/dark villain

Speaking of that I just finished 20 tickets

I wonder which should be my next 4 to 5 star

[tardy fiber]

I just upgraded hapu, gonna complete hau, thorton, siebold next...gonna complete those that have first

Then probably bp and then lodge

[lean mango]

He's been long overdue for an alt

[tardy fiber]

Shiny hoopa unbound lysandre please

[signal halo]

Hoopa unbound could also be a choice

Is there a way to remove the condition shield from someone?

Actually, lemme ask this on the proper place, sorry

[tawny cedar]

Welp done with calem

Took me to pity

Now to save for good ol ssylysandre/sycamore

[midnight chasm]

gem zen brotherhood i decided to skip ccalem to pull in anniv if i like someone

🫡

[reef river]

Good

Calems a dork

[sly breach]

Got serena hopefully sometime in the future they get rerun

[midnight chasm]

LMFAO

[cunning swan]

I believe in you

[ashen thunder]

||I am 2 singles away from pity on ccalem||
My next stop is alola VA after this

Hopefully tapu MFs

[violet nebula]

Which tapu?

[ashen thunder]

All 4

Unless they are somehow disappointing gameplaywise

Don't want my 200th boring striker

[rare swan]

gentle reminder to keep any talk of pulling under spoiler tags, since a lot of people here are trying to resist

[ashen thunder]

Ah OK
Mb

[rare swan]

all g!

[ashen thunder]

Done

[rare swan]

😌 lovely

[vestal leaf]

90k in less than 3 months

[lofty relic]

75k free, 25k paid

[sturdy flower]

rich Dreamy

[vestal leaf]

Still solid

[sturdy flower]

our half anni will be glorious

[vestal leaf]

70k in 2 months and half is nicr

[sturdy flower]

[lofty relic]

Alola VA is the bane of my gems

[vestal leaf]

That's gonna be probably in April/may

[rare swan]

soon.....brace yourself, dreamy

[cunning swan]

And here I was hoping April would be a calm month

[lofty relic]

Wishlist :

Elio & Magearna
Selene & Zeraora
Hau & Tapu Koko
Gladion & Kartana
Lillie & Ninetales (Alolan)
Hapu & Tapu Fini
Olivia & Tapu Lele
Guzma & Guzzlord
Lusamine & Nihilego

[cunning swan]

The first 3 months of 2022 really tested my gems and April was the first time I could take a breather

[vestal leaf]

I'm no Jay

[cunning swan]

Well at least one of the protags should get something...

[vestal leaf]

I could be wrong

[cunning swan]

Unless they do a neo champion for Alola all of a sudden

[vestal leaf]

Both Selene and Elio will get something

100%

Imo

They never skipped MCs getting stuff in VAs

Kalos was a kinda of exception

[cunning swan]

Leaf would like to have a word

[vestal leaf]

Leaf doesn't count ofc

Because in gen 1 she didn't exist

That's why we got cred and clue

Johto got 3 mcs to compensate the lack of units there probs

[timber wren]

ilima and komala

[gloomy holly]

More like SS Lillie and Magearna

[lofty relic]

it could but for some reason i have an odd feeling Elio will get it

[timber wren]

the forgotten trial captain

[gloomy holly]

Sure, anything can happen

[vestal leaf]

Elio might get a random ub imo

If Selene got blaceph and Elio xurxitree I'd be in trouble

[wind nymph]

A UB and Dusk Lycanroc or we riot

[wind nymph]

Elio was shown in more promo art for SM and USUM. I feel like they’re going to promote him slightly more.

(Unless DeNA decides to be one of those fans with yet another region)

[lofty relic]

at first i wanted each kahuna to get their koko tapu but that won't happen

Also yeah Ilima normal zone or what

[tough oriole]

You mean their Tapu

[lofty relic]

i'm tired

lol fixed

[cunning swan]

Wow this hurts to read

[vestal leaf]

Rare case of female MC L

[cunning swan]

[ashen thunder]

Leaf still in better state than Nate

So it's fine

[vestal leaf]

Can't beat blue & red in popularity

[ashen thunder]

[cunning swan]

I've decreased my complaining over Leaf's condition since her grid expansion

[vestal leaf]

As a 5/5 SSLeaf user i don't complain

[cunning swan]

But her not even appearing in Kanto VA when literally every other Kanto cast did is something I will eternally be salty about

[gloomy holly]

Hmmmm, besides the fact that I'm using SS Diantha's banner duration as an excuse to get NY Lisia, I also don't have a single seasonal unit at all

[vestal leaf]

No seasonals?

[gloomy holly]

Ye

[vestal leaf]

https://tenor.com/view/megamind-gif-26070434

[gloomy holly]

I lied, I have SC Emmet

But no more other than him

[cunning swan]

Special costume is different

[sturdy flower]

poor Nate

[cunning swan]

Look at my big collection of seasonals!

[gloomy holly]

[vestal leaf]

Rosa also didn't get a va alt

Because there's gonna be unoVA 2

[gloomy holly]

Yet she has so many alts

[vestal leaf]

Yeah

[gloomy holly]

Or a few alts

[sturdy flower]

i think it's mainly because they were still in early phase of designing the whole VA arc

[vestal leaf]

2

Alts

One of which is 3 years old

[gloomy holly]

Now I have 2 excuses to pull for NY Lisia, but I'm still holding it in like a dam

[cunning swan]

She got a special costume just a couple of months before, I think we can let her slide

[vestal leaf]

Yeah

But Nate getting skipped

[cunning swan]

N and Hilda's alt gaps between summer and sygna suits were waaay too short though

[broken mulch]

I keep getting baited by seasonals even though my brain knows they’re a godawful banner

[vestal leaf]

• no rosa va alt

[cunning swan]

Nate's the one getting the short end of the stick

[vestal leaf]

Makes me be pretty sure about unoVA 2

[cunning swan]

A lot of the other VAs barely include their whole cast available in the game too though Kanto's was actually nice in comparison

Of course that's just my bias speaking

UnoVA not including Alder and Iris was ridiculous

[cunning swan]

I was coping for UnoVA part 2 too because lore-wise, Reshiram is still captured by Team Plasma and Nate's also gonna pull off a Kyurem of his own and make them fuse together to get White Kyurem but now we have Kalos VA confirmed, I think I can bury my hopes

[vestal leaf]

Nah

It's happening

There's no way the event ended that way

With all the bw2 shit

And Ghetsis running away while hinting at another plan

While only getting bw1 focus character alts

And bw2 getting 2 gen pools

[cunning swan]

I sure hope you're right

[vestal leaf]

Plus

No Ghetsis alt?

Cmon

Too much stuff missing compared to other VAs

[cunning swan]

UnoVA has a large cast they can milk, I doubt they can milk Ghetsis lol

Even Cyrus getting an alt was impressive. Yes the kit's broken but I don't think Cyrus is too popular of a character

[vestal leaf]

Gio got alt
Cyrus got alt
We had the titan reruns
99.9999% lys is getting an alt

Seems weird to me

To skip ghetsis

[cunning swan]

Pretty sure Lysandre will get an alt because Kalos has very few options to choose from

[gloomy holly]

Besides Red, who are non-Galar characters that can G-Max their mons?

[vestal leaf]

Kalos menu art has only him or Shauna as alt options so

Lol

[cunning swan]

Dena can break their patterns any time

[cunning swan]

Ghetsis was in the UnoVA art too but didn't get anything so

[vestal leaf]

Gmax? Idk

Dynamax there's SS Gio

[cunning swan]

Elesa

[vestal leaf]

N did

[gloomy holly]

Well I said G-Max, not D-Max

[cunning swan]

Ah

[vestal leaf]

There's always a unit that changes

In the art

And i doubt it's Shauna

Lel

[gloomy holly]

Would it be unsurprising if one of the Alola protags gets G-Max Melmetal?

[vestal leaf]

I'd love that

[timber wren]

reminding y’all that this is not a place to flex your limited units, and if you have to post them please spoiler

[cunning swan]

Hmmm speaking of VA art, does anyone know where I can see the past villain arc art? Without having to scroll through datamines

[vestal leaf]

Only there I think

[cunning swan]

I can't remember what Hoenn's looked like for the life of me

[timber wren]

it had kyogre getting cut off

[cunning swan]

I don't doubt Lysandre will get something. But only because there are very few options. With Ghetsis I'm not too hopeful

[gloomy holly]

We're missing a lot of mons with the gimmicks

[cunning swan]

Oh that, now I remember Kyogre's creepy smile

[gloomy holly]

G-Max, mega, Z-Moves

[cunning swan]

GOOD

[violet nebula]

With Hoopa bringing pairs in

Kalos VA be a golden chance to bring AZ

[vestal leaf]

https://tenor.com/view/kyogre-gif-22176851

[violet nebula]

Act as a bigger threat than Lysandrye

[vestal leaf]

Or

[violet nebula]

Then go to hero... whatever

[cunning swan]

Kalos VA is a golden chance to bring in the last of the two elite fours so I can get my damn Kalos CS already

[vestal leaf]

Be the anti lys

Watch AZ come in and stop lys

[violet nebula]

That to

[vestal leaf]

At last minute

[violet nebula]

There is a lot of work for Kalos

Let's pray its good

[cunning swan]

Kalos needs the love and boost that Johto got

[violet nebula]

It badly does

Goodra with a trainer be nice to

Noivern

Pangoro

[gloomy holly]

MF AZ and Eternal Floette?

[unborn pier]

Johto had two arts

[violet nebula]

We will need to dream and pray😆

[cunning swan]

Is he even MF worthy?

[violet nebula]

Yus

[gloomy holly]

Ask Anni Steven

[violet nebula]

The dude was prepared to destroy Kalos for the pokemon he loved

And nearly did

[cunning swan]

Popular mon, popular character. I think dena values that more

[vestal leaf]

You're right? I totally forgot part 1 art

What was it

[violet nebula]

These art screens are lit though

Not going to lie

But rest assured AZ will be forgotten as will Lys and Syc

We will be flooded with waifu😆

[cunning swan]

Well, we already got Diantha in part 1

What other options do we even have, another korrina alt?

[mild spindle]

Sygna Suit Renegade Korrina

[violet nebula]

And another Diantha😆

[crude coral]

Looks like I'd have min 19k free gems by the end of the month. No more pulls this month, except Calem's last multi for pity soon.

[unborn pier]

Gio with the rocket admins and Nidoking I think

Other arcs may have just had the same art but edited with the alts for part 2, at least afaik

[crude coral]

Imagine MF Select
5k paidgems as well but ×15 instead of ×25
Would free fishes/dolphins from the horrendous 1.0% rate, and be able to focus freegems on the Seasonals and PFs

[hard wave]

same, and if there is smth I want it’s just the 2.5 anni rerun banner

Im halfway thru pity with lillie and can do a multi on her next reset, hoping to get her and start saving but atleast if I need to reach pity im prepared

[sturdy flower]

you can even make it x1 5k paid

just give me that mf unit

the associated draws are a scam, and im not salty ||because I got 1 5* dupe and nothing else in it||

[crude coral]

Kekw

I wonder if there's a prediction sheet of upcoming reruns and selects

[sturdy flower]

DeNa loves to break patterns

to the point where you might even prepare for 3mf on half anni

[vestal leaf]

5k for MF select? You're dreaming

Imo it's gonna be at least 7k if it ever happens

[crude coral]

Kekw sadge

My biggest hopiums/copiums:
Prof Oak: Fulfilled
Jessie & James: Fulfilled
Ash: Fulfilled
Brendan with Mega Sceptile: Sadge
Brendan with a Mega: Fulfilled
Leon with GMax Charizard: Sadge
Serena/Calem with Greninja: Fulfilled
Yellow with Pikachu: Sadge
MF Select: Sadge

[tawny cedar]

7k for 5 summons,10k for 11 summons and 15k for 25 summons

[tough oriole]

I’m so glad I don’t have any MF reruns I need

[lament hornet]

lusamine

[feral vale]

Forgot to mention I hit 50k today

[tough oriole]

||She might rerun for Alola VA (unless she gets an alt)||

[hard wave]

I have a few that I want

Lusamine, Zerena, Ethan, Aura Cynthia and Lillie but she’s rerunning rn

Idrc too much about leon steven maxie n red and lyra and I have the rest

[deft glen]

for me only GiraCynthia

[wind nymph]

How is ethan good?

I cant even figure out how to properly use him

[hard wave]

SS Ethan with lugia

[wind nymph]

Ohhhh

Ok so regular ethan’s bad?

[hard wave]

I think so

[wind nymph]

Ah

[hard wave]

Fire’s rlly stacked so that contributes prob

Like ss hilda may red anni n even leon is better

Flying doesnt have as many options I think

[little briar]

I think the only MF I want is like, SS Kris and Lusamine, but it's a huge maybe since I don't need them

[hard wave]

I dont need any of them but they seem useful and look cool

[signal halo]

LuSSamine would be bigger for me if she had the organ ultra necrozma theme

[hard wave]

Plus flying is one of my worst types, ghost I have giratina but lillie would be nice cuz giratina is a tech

And my fantina is 1/5 idk when ill get more copies

[tough oriole]

even leon

I remember when people called Leon the best strike in the game

[hard wave]

I dont think he’s terrible but the other 4 seem much better

[signal halo]

Leon would be a rerun I'd go for

[hard wave]

Btw is ss diantha worth pulling? I do want her but my doubt is because of anni and pt 2 but also only red and lucas have rerun

And no I cant do select scouts

[signal halo]

She's strong, I think

[feral vale]

Dunno if this the right place to ask that ^^;;

[timber wren]

if you like her but if youre unsure she stays until march so you’ll get to see part 2 of the va and half anni stuff. so wait until then to decide

[hard wave]

But isnt there a part 2 to the half anni like with zerena?

But ye ill try and save

[hard wave]

Wasnt sure cuz this channel helps w saving I think but ill ask on #poma-questions next time

[sturdy flower]

will the 2nd half of the month even be hidden

there's no "part 2" of half anni

Zerena is not anni unit

[hard wave]

Oh

[sturdy flower]

that's just a slot where they often drop MFs

but they might do a small SC event and start alola in april, you never know

[hard wave]

I played last yr but like in february so I was rlly new and didnt even know about datamines

[tardy fiber]

Hopefully its not hidden, hidden is always much more of a trouble for me than a surprise by DeNa... I didn't like to be surprised with a few faves hidden mid month

[tough oriole]

She wouldn’t have released if it weren’t for anni though

[timber wren]

they did split that update

so we didn’t know about zerena, but back then they also used the same key to unlock the updates so we ended up seeing her a couple days after the half anni datamine

[tough oriole]

Indeed

[timber wren]

that mistake has been corrected so we can’t count on it again

[sturdy flower]

unless they goof through some other promotional materials

like the icon updates

or their newsletter for anni being sent early

[tardy fiber]

I would love anni 2022 goof again, leaking sstred and ssacynthia through email

[tough oriole]

It was funny when they accidentally leaked summer N and then did it again the month after

[hard wave]

We need more early leaks like october but w/o them getting caught

[tardy fiber]

Cannot wait for sycamore

[feral vale]

Same

[tardy fiber]

My bvilla team will be buffed

[rare swan]

Just 8 resets to go

My gem balance will be looking NOICE when SS Diantha drops

[lament hornet]

ss diantha is going to be my test

[signal halo]

I think my test this month might be the triple banner

But I feel like it will be pretty low value

Gameplay wise

Besides colress, who'd be a pretty big pick-up for my account

[lament hornet]

yeah but i've been playing for 10 months now and my free gem count never actually reached a single full pity

[timber wren]

now would be a good time to hit that goal given how close half anni is

zero reason to pull diantha rn if you’re not head over heels for her since she’s here until march

[lament hornet]

that's why it's my test

[lapis pine]

Imagine it’s morbius except instead of morbin time it’s savin time

[lament hornet]

technically it's easiest test of my life but

i like new toys too much to wait on them, at least how it was historically

[lapis pine]

Same good faith bones

[signal halo]

After my early gaming mostly rewarded mistakes

I've always pulled after I reached the pity

[tardy fiber]

I hope i can at least reach 100k before kalos VA starts

[lament hornet]

same, difference being wallet is how i got to pity

[hard wave]

Same

[hard wave]

Same as well as diantha

She’d help olivia a ton and I dont have iris/gloria and my diantha is still 1/5

[lament hornet]

diantha lasting a long while is immensely helpful as a good starting point

[signal halo]

I'm close to 100k already

[tardy fiber]

Im currently 90,910...and there's 500 gems unclaimed from the missions

[hard wave]

I think the highest ive ever saved was 18k

[signal halo]

Iirc I'm at 94k

[hard wave]

Was waiting for archie but then I decided to go for ss steven || got steven 10th multi went for pity then got archie 3rd multi tho ||

[spare swift]

Those good ol' times during 1.5 anni, when he was the strongest in all the 3 types

The person who will burn without fail, and can regain MP for TM while attacking

[tough oriole]

He was never the strongest of any 3 types

[upbeat lotus]

He was considered not good back then

[tough oriole]

Some people considered him great, some people considered him underwhelming

[upbeat lotus]

Yeah underwhelming is the correct word for him

[chrome nest]

I want the villains to win in a villain arc for once

[vernal glade]

Same but I know it won’t happen

[rare swan]

Yes! You can save up a pity and wait until the last few days of her banner to see if you really want her

We'll also get two datamines before she goes, so 😌

[lament hornet]

i'm not known for patience though

[rare swan]

We believe in you!!

[hard wave]

Same, ive saved half a pity at most

It was for like 2 weeks as well idk if I can save for 4x as long with double the amount

[tardy fiber]

I can save whole month if there's no fave, like last December

[hard wave]

|| I was planning to skip november but then I ended up doing 2 multis on hilda (got her first one then did another one which was dead, idk why) 3 on hilbert (didnt get him) 1 on N (also didnt get him) and 4 on the gauntlet banner (I got a lysandre and 3 Blues and 5/5d him since he was 2/5) ||

|| But its fine ig cuz im prepared for his grid expansion and I rlly like hilda now ||

[cunning swan]

maybe spoiler this, we don't want to tempt people to pull

[sturdy hatch]

So tempted by 15000 wasted gems

[hard wave]

Mb

[signal halo]

Wym

[sturdy hatch]

3+1+1=15k gems

[hard wave]

|| I did 4 multis on the gauntlet banner in total so it was more like 3/4 of a pity ||

[cunning swan]

[feral vale]

Big bruh moment right here

[hard wave]

Idk

[lean mango]

Gem count,

[gloomy holly]

I guess not even today will give me a full pity

[lean mango]

Seems like you'll get to pity by 2 resets

[chrome nest]

Casually getting 4K on the 9th

[lean mango]

I did not notice that

[upbeat lotus]

current gem count: 6195
next goal: 9k

[cunning swan]

[hard wave]

So it looks like I may have to pity lillie

If I do get before then when should I pity and when should I save? 237/400 atm

[cunning swan]

imo, continue pity if you're at 396/400

[hard wave]

So basically if I get her last multi pity if not dont?

I did my 2 singles already which is why its at 237

[cunning swan]

basically, yeah

[hard wave]

Hm alr thx

[crude coral]

I haven't explored Bettie's hairstyles yet. Very nice.

[tardy fiber]

92,310 today

[lunar topaz]

Wow

[summer goblet]

I'm going on a long exile for a while after dumping ||72k gems for both Serena and Jasmine||to redeem myself and Zen for a while

I shall return once I'm satisfied with my gem saving

[tardy fiber]

I wonder if my behaviour is still called zenning if there's rapid release of faves and i will pull them if i got the pity, and skipped the whole month if there's no fave unit...pull fave and skip non fave is still zenning right? Although my savings never touched 100k savings before

[ashen thunder]

As long as you roll with pity and skip non favs it should still be zen

[tardy fiber]

[gloomy holly]

My zenning will end next week

When SS Diantha comes

[tardy fiber]

||same|| hope i can reach 100k and snap a pic

Just need 7.6k gems

[chrome nest]

The “Watch others completion” feature is the most useless peace of hot garbodor I have ever seen

If you don’t have the units that are shown it’s a final screw you for not pulling more

Like the only thing I see for fairy completions are teams that the units I don’t have

Why did they even made that feature in the first place

[ashen thunder]

It's to make people pull for featured units ofc

It's already in some games so it's not rly that bad

Tho I wish it had a refresh system to see more teams

[chrome nest]

My only competent fairy type s marnie can’t beat it yet

[ashen thunder]

Maybe I'll throw that on the survey

Just use sycamore

[chrome nest]

And then here’s the game shoving ss wally and lisia

Not even an option for free fairy types I can use

[cunning swan]

The idea is good. The execution is bad

Like i don't need to watch replays on how this very OP team cleared this LA stage

[ashen thunder]

Just sycamore , bp Morty, big dps
Ez win

[chrome nest]

I said screw it and use Ss Steven

Because the game is never helpful

[ashen thunder]

Why would it be?

You can check YT

For budget runs

The feature is mainly to incentivise people to roll stronger pairs

Coz it doesn't have refresh option or more than 7 or 8 teams at once

[cunning swan]

The game also recommends a shit ton of limited pairs in their tips for Sinnoh and Hoenn CS. Of course they're not helpful

[chrome nest]

I literally want to because of that feature

[ashen thunder]

Like

[cunning swan]

I still appreciate the tips but the recommended teams are laughable

[ashen thunder]

Optimize is still useless

It's not like there won't be more useless features

[tardy fiber]

My best fairy weak team are non fairy pairs

[cunning swan]

Fucking same

[ashen thunder]

I have diantha and I still prefer offtype

Coz that's how shitty fairy is

[tardy fiber]

Well at least Johto csmm can do gladion clears

[ashen thunder]

[chrome nest]

Same

[cunning swan]

My fairy types consist of sycamore, mina, valerie, lillie, and lodge lillie

[chrome nest]

No good free fairy strikers

[ashen thunder]

1/5 Diantha struggles to clear Bruno this week at 2.3k pts and it's not even funny

She clears it

But the resets it took

Is not forgivable

And most fairy types suk

[tardy fiber]

But im happy with Sycamore well for the future at least as the only Fairy fave for me currently is him

[ashen thunder]

Except sycamore

Or the recent 2 limited units

[chrome nest]

I should work on lodge Lillie

I’m going insane with my lack of fairy types

[tardy fiber]

With him getting , i just gonna hopium that DeNa will make Magearna or Enamorus tech/striker

[ashen thunder]

Just offtype

[tardy fiber]

Oh I forgot

With sycamore EX, i can do annilillie moonblast run

And gloria play rough

[ashen thunder]

I am praying for sycamore to get sync Accel next month

So he can do his sync one rotation early

[tardy fiber]

Or vigilance power boost so that i can put head start on him instead

[ashen thunder]

Plz no

That's waste of a tile

He doesn't even need vigilance

I'll just put headstart if they do TM propulsion or headstart

Else its whatever lucky skill for him

[tardy fiber]

Really? I kinda want survivability on my sycamore... especially because his def buffs need sync to access, I won't mind if he got 1 def related tile

Oh maybe can if they release fairy gear in the future, extra defense and spdef

[ashen thunder]

Oh yea he might get stoic

Or the entry passive for def

[tardy fiber]

Yep sentry entry

I use sentry entry on my scjasmine and it fixes her low def

[ashen thunder]

Yea I might roll that shit for lucky skill if he isn't getting any sort of sync Accel

Well my SCjasmine case is special

Coz I rarely use her without a dedicated defense buffer so she's stuck with vigilance

[tardy fiber]

I took vigilance on grid so she have both vigilance and sentryx2

[ashen thunder]

Tbf I have no idea where to even use sycamore coz most special dps have their own way of buffing atleast +2 spl atk

So sycamore waiting 3 rotations to throw a buff feels so out of place

[tardy fiber]

Yep i guess he doesn't have much use if people already have a bunch of support ...as i mainly use faves, i only have 5 support that i would use... ssbrendan, scjasmine, sskris, ssdawn, ssmorty...he will be my 6th but yeah, i think hop will help me more...well because not many of my support buff physical attack stuffs...but a support will always be helpful.

[ashen thunder]

Well hop has better setup

Not that I prefer support ex much nowadays

[tardy fiber]

Attack defense crit buff...i just slap him with any physical attacker and done

[ashen thunder]

Early game it's very handy tho

I hope hop's expansion has smth to stand out compared to every other atk+crit support

Coz my god there's lot of em already

[tardy fiber]

Will be perfect with Gloria

[tardy fiber]

I just noticed, Sycamore kinda have a place if compare with other fairy supports...well herika is bad, lillie only buff one unit with her tm, only burghepi and kali might be able to setup faster than sycamore...well kali doesn't have support EX

[ashen thunder]

Well Kali doesn't demand sync

Unlike sycamore

So Kali not having ex is not as big demerit as sycamore needing to sync for buffs at all

[tardy fiber]

Sycamore also have high stats 300+ base def spdef if 150 also have high atk and high spatk, man I won't mind if dena make magearna/enamorus a support as well, sycamore seems good if he got def and spdef buff while waiting for his sync, oh atk buff is also a plus as well to boost his horn leech damage

[ashen thunder]

Tbh I hope they stop releasing tech units and release more supports

Last year was way too tech infested due to zones

[tardy fiber]

I wonder if they will release fire/water zone but probably not as annimay have psychic wish but it become terrain instead of zone

So normal zone and ice zone left

[ashen thunder]

If fire and water get zone that stack to weather, it'd be funni

[tardy fiber]

Oh right maybe they scrap that and just focus on rebuff instead

Hope Matt will have water rebuff

[ashen thunder]

If ice zone unit denies charging time for all allies it'd be hilarious

Coz ssn rollers would be having a field day

[sweet plaza]

Way ahead of you

[tardy fiber]

A buff to my ssN

[ashen thunder]

We already have water rebuff

Just use genesect or frog

[tardy fiber]

Yep seems rebuff can go to more than 1 units, not like zone that seems hard to go to multiple users

Gordie fire rebuff and gilbert fire rebuff

[ashen thunder]

Ccalem and SScyrus have dark zone too

So they can do multiple zones as well

[tardy fiber]

Sclillie and ssrcynthia ghost zone

[ashen thunder]

I still can't believe they managed to release like 13 zones in just 1 year

[tardy fiber]

Yep but water zone seems hard to implement as duplicate with rain, so probably they just will add more water rebuff units instead of water zone

[ashen thunder]

Well water and fire don't rly need zones

It just makes those types noticably better if they do so

[tardy fiber]

Hoping for matt to have something that buff archie's damage...well rain dance doesn't actually help archie, water zone seems redundant so water rebuff will be the most likely

Courtney ground zone + Maxie's sun made his ground damage goes boom...hope Matt will give same treatment to archie

[ashen thunder]

Well Archie still feels mid even when paired with cerena

[tardy fiber]

[ashen thunder]

The aoe split rly hurts him

Unlike zygarde who does lucas's single target damage on all 3 mobs

[tardy fiber]

I wonder why DeNa only give him 332 spatk while Maxie got 476 atk when level 150

[ashen thunder]

Coz that was their way to "balance" for lack of ground boosting weather

Both Archie and Maxie on release were similar damage performance with Archie having an edge

With zone Maxie just skyrocketed on damage

[tardy fiber]

But sun boost maxie, just like rain boost archie during their first release

[sturdy flower]

i hope someone else gets the neon Kyogre and Groudon

these are the ones I want and I'm not fan of the leaders

[vestal leaf]

Tbh their performance is still great

[sturdy flower]

Neo Champion Brendan and May

ofc May gets water again

[vestal leaf]

I use groudon without zone and he's still amazing

[sturdy flower]

Groudon should be amazing, he's near Zerena in damage after all

[ashen thunder]

Well Archie still has an advantage of being in the most bloated typing

[vestal leaf]

His nuke is way worse than hers but yea

[ashen thunder]

Unlike Maxie

[sturdy flower]

his gauge is ok with Courtney because she has sun accel nodes

[sturdy flower]

you nuke with Courtney and it should work out fine

[tardy fiber]

I use maxie with nita, not gonna use my Courtney because Camerupt isnt legendary

[vestal leaf]

<- no Courtney

[ashen thunder]

Well once Dena starts doing MF grid expansions, they'll likely boost Archie hard

[vestal leaf]

I doubt that will happen soon

[ashen thunder]

Well it will happen

[sturdy flower]

i'd rather they dont do MF grid expansions but instead make a "promise" to just update MF units from time to time

[ashen thunder]

It's a matter of when

Will likely take 4-5 years

At current pacing

[vestal leaf]

Yeah, but it might take 2+ years

So by then most of current MF will have been forgotten

[sturdy flower]

with how rare MF units are they could just keep them up to date at being good always

[vestal leaf]

Leon still absolutely murking stages after 2 years 🙏

[sturdy flower]

this game is supposed to be about using favs instead of the best of best anyways, so keeping units good shouldnt hurt their finances

[tardy fiber]

I rather they power boost MF instead of 5/5 grid expansion

[ashen thunder]

Well as I said
Archie has stronger teams than Maxie

Imagine having to run courtney of all things

If courtney was water

Water teams won't even use her over stuff like Kriss or calem

That advantage always remains for him till they decide to release stronger ground zone bot

[sturdy flower]

but Courtney nukes much harder than May

[ashen thunder]

She's not even close to may in dps
The gap isn't rly that big between courtney and may on nuke either

[sturdy flower]

how isn't it big

i have used this as a reference to not decide by my feelings

and because I don't have Groudon or 3/5 Courtney

this is where Courtney is

oh, these numbers are 5/5 6*

but that gives them similar boost

[tardy fiber]

I kinda like Courtney, she is like a pokefair unit that DeNa accidentally made spotlight

Zone+high damage

Pokefair material

[sturdy flower]

of course if you run Cerena it's no contest, but that's unfair with how ground just has no other zone setters

Groudon requires higher maintenance so the bigger base dmg is fine

Kyogre will always be lower maintenance than something running both sun and zone

[tardy fiber]

Talking about spotlight, i doesn't even read Shauna kit yet

[ashen thunder]

Isn't that damage also assume courtney def drop

[sturdy flower]

feels like 2020 unit

[ashen thunder]

Courtney first nuke is like very potato from my experience

Coz it's still dc2 and doesn't get to abuse that

[tardy fiber]

no wonder she's spotlight

[sturdy flower]

they really gimped her for no reason too

[sturdy flower]

honestly, it can assume some, I can't tell you that much though

but May also has potato first sync

[ashen thunder]

They gimped her when they decided to release her as a physical crit buffer

Coz we already have so many of em

[ashen thunder]

They both are potato, is my point

[sturdy flower]

Courtney needs maxed def on first sync

May just needs rain

that's the edge

but at the same time maxed def also gives her Towering Force multiplier so if you fulfill that she will nuke harder

in 2 sync gameplay you can also not use zone before sync

and use earthen opening sync instead

in general we really lack stages to truly explore these characters

[ashen thunder]

Well I am quite certain courtney doesn't need earth opening sync
Coz a fight with Maxie doesn't rly drag that long

It's more like maybe if clay wants to dps

Then earth opening sync can be gridded

[sturdy flower]

i wanted to comment on Shauna for ppl interested in her or not

wrote "sha" and pressed Rosa by accident

impostor

[ashen thunder]

Shauna is sad

They rly didn't have to release her when we already have Hilbert, Aaron and sonia

Already competing with same role

[upbeat lotus]

They should make her a tech or even a striker

[sturdy flower]

she would have her small niche